Posted on 08/15/2019 11:24:55 AM PDT by CedarDave
I guess elevators are out now, too. :(
FAA gave a warning about this to small aircraft not long ago.
It just seems like touch screens and weapon systems are bad combo.
Me also driving the manual truck. The only thing on touchscreen vehicles that appeals to me is the back-up camera.
I am with the Navy on this, I think with old style controls, rather than touch screens give better feedback to the user. Especially like in the original Star trek, where the panels would short out and explode in a cloud of sparks, possibly taking out a red shirt along with it. Now that was feedback!
Few things get your attention quicker than “Man Aft Steering”! over the 1MC in a high traffic area.
Like a modern car radio!
Mechanical hand crank car windows almost never failed.
I disagree. Instead of a screen dimmer which is readily accessible, guys on a new civilian ship started just throwing their jackets over the screen because they could not readily dim it at night. Turns out that they needed to go to a sub-menu of a sub-menu. The red light should be a quick and easy switch not a time consuming hunt through several screens.
It was also career advice !
Don’t be a red shirt!
Yep, It had gone beyond all intelligent logic now.
“I despise touchscreens.”
Ditto. First things I do with a new laptop is turn off the touchscreen and turn off the touchpad.
In high-stress, high-adrenalin situations, the first thing to deteriorate is fine motor control. That do you need to work touch screens? Fine motor control. Duh.
When you are talking about a system as important as the steering of a battleship, why aren’t there redundant controls? Why not have the touchscreens but have mechanical controls in place to override the touchscreens if the need arises? Airplanes that are much, much more weight sensitive than a battleship have numerous redundant systems.
I was in a sports car with a manual transmission and the driver got stuck in a rut on the side of the road. I watched her try several times to get it out. I then said I think I can do this if you will let me try.
So, got in the driver's seat, put it in first gear, let the clutch out slightly and as the car rocked up the side of the rut, pushed it in again. Rocked up the other side and let the clutch out again.
Couple of rocks and I was up and out of the rut. Standard maneuver with a manual transmission. Try doing that with an automatic transmission with a touch screen.
Some of these human-machine interfaces have been designed over decades. Some over millennia. They work because they have evolved over time to be the best way to do it.
Particularly in cars/trucks. If the driver has to take eyes off the road to determine what state the controls are in and switch them to the state he desires, then the controls are badly designed. And many controls in cars from the last few years are badly designed. Touch screens almost guarantee this form of bad design.
“I guess elevators are out now, too. :(”
Carry something in both hands and ask a the nice person next to you to push the buttob. He/she/it will go away felling happy that they got to help someone.
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